{"id":229641,"date":"2012-12-13T18:12:23","date_gmt":"2012-12-14T00:12:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/?p=229641"},"modified":"2012-12-14T17:38:28","modified_gmt":"2012-12-14T23:38:28","slug":"longview-sales-tax-receipts-see-big-increase","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=229641","title":{"rendered":"Longview Sales Tax Receipts See Big Increase"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/?attachment_id=229642\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-229642\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2012\/12\/thumb_longview-cityof.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"thumb_longview-cityof\" width=\"120\" height=\"120\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-229642\" \/><\/a>LONGVIEW \u2014 Longview sees a 19% jump in sales tax revenue in December compared to December 2011. According to KETK, Longview brought in $1.7 million for the month; $1.4 million came in last December. The increase also gets the city back on track for its budget after being down the last couple of months. Officials hope the upswing continues. City spokesman Shawn Hara says, \u201cHopefully this a good sign of holiday months coming up, the holiday spending that\u2019ll be happening in the area, \u2019cause that\u2019s good for the Longview economy, and it\u2019s good for us being able to provide services. This is one of our main sources of revenue to be able to provide services like police and fire and streets.\u201d <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>LONGVIEW \u2014 Longview sees a 19% jump in sales tax revenue in December compared to December 2011. According to KETK, Longview brought in $1.7 million for the month; $1.4 million came in last December. The increase also gets the city back on track for its budget after being down the last couple of months. Officials &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=229641\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Longview Sales Tax Receipts See Big Increase<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[177],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-229641","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-local-news-archive-archives"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-07-04 16:01:39","action":"change-status","newStatus":"trash","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/229641","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=229641"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/229641\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":229845,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/229641\/revisions\/229845"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=229641"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=229641"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=229641"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}